Originally Posted by T.J. Bender

And best of luck to them if they insist that the screening be done privately. A colleague of mine once got into it with a TSO who told him he'd been flagged for random, post-WBI screening, and he would need to accompany the screener to a private room. My colleague told the screener he would submit to any and all screening, but anything that had to be done to him would be done in the screening area, outside of a private room.

The screener didn't like that and called over a supervisor, who promptly called over a LEO as well. The supervisor told the LEO that my colleague was refusing to submit to screening, and my colleague told the LEO that he was willing to undergo any TSA screening required to deem him safe for travel, but he would not be taken into a private room by the TSA.

The LEO more or less told the three-striper that my colleague was, in his opinion, cooperating fully, and the supervisor would have to decide whether to search him there or send him home, but not to expect any help from the LEO with the latter option.